Winners of the 3rd edition of the Arquivo.pt Award 2020

Arquivo.pt, a research infrastructure managed by FCT through its National Scientific Computing Unit (FCCN), has announced the three winning finalists of the 3rd Edition of the Arquivo.pt Award 2020.

The first prize, worth 10,000 euros, was awarded to the "Desarquivo" project developed by Miguel Ramalho. This project developed a tool that allows you to check the relationship between entities, people, organizations and places based on news published online over the last 20 years. This tool is public. Students, researchers or any citizen can use it to quickly and dynamically explore the content and relationships established.

The "Arquivo.pt Extension" project won second place, with a prize of 3,000 euros, and was developed by Rodrigo Marques and Hugo Silva. It is an extension for the current Arquivo.pt browser, which allows you to carry out advanced searches directly from the browser, without having to leave the page you are currently viewing.

Nuno Bragança won the third prize, worth 2,000 euros, with his project "Arquivo Económico.pt", which consists of an application that allows you to compare the prices of products from the time of the Portuguese escudo.

The Honorable Mention in this edition of the Arquivo.pt Award went to the "Jornal do Passado" project, developed by Bruno Galhardo. The project consists of a game in which the user tests their knowledge of news or events, trying to match the date on which they occurred. The game is based on work done on the Público newspaper collection on Arquivo.pt and the mention was awarded by the Público newspaper.

The Call projects were evaluated by an independent jury made up of Miguel Fontes (executive director of Startup Lisboa), Helena Freitas (biologist and professor at the University of Coimbra), Paulo Bastos (TVI journalist), Maria Beatriz Marques (professor at the University of Coimbra and PhD in Documentary Sciences) and Teresa Firmino (editor of the Science section of PÚBLICO). The prizes will be awarded to these winners at the Science 2020 Meeting, which will take place at the beginning of November.

Arquivo.pt is a research infrastructure that archives all the web pages published in Portugal since 1996 and has an online search service that gives access to all the archived information. The main objective of Arquivo.pt is to preserve the information published on the web for memory, study and research, with access for the entire population.

Every year FCT opens the "Arquivo.pt Award" Call projects, the first edition of which took place in 2018. The results of the 1st edition can be found at Prémios Arquivo.pt 2018 and those of the 2nd edition at Prémios Arquivo.pt 2019.